A dishonest school bursar is facing a jail sentence for stealing thousands of pounds.

Sandra Ross has admitted 21 fraud offences committed while employed at Temple Mill Primary School, in Cliffe Road, Strood, between May 2005 and September last year.

The 63-year-old business manager, pictured left, transferred more than £170,000 from school coffers into her own account.

She used other funds to pay for a Mastercard account (£3,985) residential care (£34,001), furniture from Ningbo Marks and Spencer (£2,747), Mercedes car (£1,000), computer (£429), groceries (£691), clothes (£1,409), council tax to the Isle of Wight Council (£578), Age Concern (£745), BUPA (£850), decorating (£5,925), Bonchurch Bungalows (£2,534), skip services (£391) and masonry (£214).

Ross, of Stone Croft, Meopham, has been granted bail until sentence at Maidstone Crown Court on October 19.

Judge Martin Joy warned that custody was inevitable.